My Google Pixel continuously asks me if I want to enable photo backup.
Uber Eats continuously asks me to enable notifications.
I tell the software no, again and again, day after day, and it keeps prompting me.
Most software I use is like this, it seems to be inescapable.
Google Photos does this on non-Pixel android phones too. Many times when I open the gallery app I'm confronted with a dialog where the backup checkbox is enabled and there's a continue button. It's like Google is trying to trick me into enabling it. This is an incredibly user hostile design. One day I will do it by mistake.
I mentioned this to a friend once and he said his kid got ahold of his phone for a few minutes and did enable it, causing a massive upload that put his Google account over quota. Of course it's a huge hassle to go through and unsync the photos without deleting them from the device.
Google itself has one such alternative gallery app called Gallery:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Only other hurdle to open source nirvana is OsmAnd is not as slick and smooth as Google Maps. I spent a few days acclimating to it and once downloading the gigabytes of address-data-to-GPS-coords I could start enjoying offline navigation, but when it comes to finding local restaurants' and whether they're open its hard to beat the Goog.
The iOS app as well
FOSS software does not have these misfeatures.